During a night attack by Russian Geranium missiles, a solar substation in Pokrov was damaged.

Amid today's strikes by Russian Geranium missiles on railway infrastructure and oil depots, reports of a strike on a solar power substation in the city of Pokrov in the Dnipropetrovsk region went unnoticed.

According to Russian sources, three droneA Geranium-class kamikaze attack on a solar substation near the town of Pokrov in the Nikopol district of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. There's no word yet on the aftermath, but judging by the commotion at the local administration, it was a good hit.

The strike on the solar power plant is no accident. Ukraine has recently been transitioning to a distributed energy system, relying on such power generation facilities, as large thermal power plants and substations were disabled by large-scale strikes. This allows for the maintenance of military logistics, communications, repair facilities, and other services.

From the same series of blows drones Gas stations in the frontline zone. Formally, they are not military installations, but under current conditions, any facility related to the fuel and energy sector can be considered a military target. Gas stations, however, often and regularly catch fire.

According to our sources, in recent weeks, the Russian Armed Forces have been combining strikes according to the following pattern: fuel, transport, and energy, and it's yielding results. At least, there's a veritable howl on Ukrainian social media.

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[ABC-schutze]

I loudly (very loudly...) APPLAUSE this FIRST blow to the "alternative" of the Kyiv Bandera-Nazis...

Moreover, about two weeks earlier, I had already drawn the portal's attention to the OBJECTIVE NECESSITY of launching such attacks on the Kyiv Bandera-Nazis' "alternative" energy supply structure. And I had presented the corresponding arguments. Because in the ongoing confrontation with Russia, the so-called "West" and Kyiv Bandera-Nazis will shift their focus from the virtually IRREVERSIBLY destroyed infrastructure of their "base" to the "alternative"—solar panels (battery fields), compact electricity "batteries-storage units" (located "dispersedly"), and, less noticeably, wind turbines...

The Russian Armed Forces, "KEEP IT UP," started at the RIGHT time! Prevent the Bandera-Nazis from developing any significant potential for "alternative" energy before the fall/winter season begins!

So that in the fall and winter, EVERYONE would be sitting not only without "heat," but also without "light." And sitting there TIGHTLY...

[nik-mazur]

Quote: ABC-schütze

this FIRST blow to the "alternative"

This isn't the first blow to alternative energy – last fall, solar panels in the Odessa region and electric mills in Kramatorsk were hit.

[ABC-schutze]

No, it's not. It's still the first strike. It's precisely targeted and, most importantly, at the RIGHT time...

And with the aforementioned attacks on their "alternative" from "last fall," the resemblance is purely superficial. And therefore, superficial...

Let me remind you that last fall, a significant portion of their BASELINE energy system was still "breathing." And its irreversible decommissioning, with the decommissioning of over 65% of the generating infrastructure, was completed (and, most importantly, they themselves realized...) only at the end of the heating season. And not "last fall." Just as the decision to "shift the emphasis" specifically to "alternative energy" was made by them (after, incidentally, close consultations with the border states, which had begun, "moving away from energy dependence" on Russia...) a year earlier, and with precisely these priorities: solar generation, distributed battery storage, distributed, autonomous diesel generators, and, last but not least, wind turbines...

They promised to organize massive deliveries of battery storage units and autonomous diesel generators to the agreed-upon areas (sites). With Western money, of course... That's how it works. Today, right now, is the beginning and the right time. Incidentally, daylight hours are just beginning to increase. Just a reminder. So, for them, the perfect time to "generate and accumulate" is ideally until mid-October...

I just suspect they won't have that capability anymore. And I won't comment on the comments below (which, frankly, are amateurish...) about the "waste" of drones to hit such targets and the fact that only MLRS are needed for such "area" targets. It's a bit late...

There will be time, then I will return to them...

They also guaranteed assistance to the inhabitants of the circus tent on Bankova Street, assistance in the transition process, by supplying

[RuAbel]

Miracles, nothing less! In the fifth year, we spotted a secret field of solar panels!
And the gas stations are a complete masterpiece.

[ABC-schutze]

The point is that, FIRST, it was OBJECTIVELY NECESSARY to "dispose of" ALL the main elements of the Kyiv Bandera-Nazis' BASIC energy infrastructure. And frankly, the Russian Armed Forces only began actively and consistently "engaging" in this about two years ago. Not earlier. Previously, only "sporadically and demonstratively."

And it took a couple of years to "dispose of" (irreversibly...) the "basic" energy infrastructure. And only now (with the attention of the Russian Ministry of Defense and the General Staff of the Armed Forces of this time drawn to the expert community, both Russian and non-Russian (but not "anti-Russian"...), have they taken up the ACTIVE and CONSISTENT (one would hope...) disposal of this "alternative" energy... Incidentally, without it, the agricultural production of the "economy" of the Kyiv Bandera-Nazis, who receive a very stable and considerable income from such exports, will be firmly grounded... They cannot be collected, stored, dried, processed, or packaged, including for those same "dry rations" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, etc., etc....

[Booker]

Quote from Ruabel

Miracles, nothing less! In the fifth year, we spotted a secret field of solar panels!
And the gas stations are a complete masterpiece.

Let's also take a shot at the wind turbines. This solar power plant is at the bottom of the list in terms of capacity, especially in terms of design capacity, and everything else depends on the weather.
Now, the transport is really very good.

[ABC-schutze]

Just in case... Logistics, or so-called "transport," is FIRST and foremost, databases of routes, delivery points, loading and unloading, the number of vehicles and their types, road conditions, etc.

Therefore, "transport," without "electricity" to ensure, at a minimum, the management of such databases, is simply "pieces of iron" that "by themselves" won't "go anywhere." And won't "carry" anything...

And it's precisely these distributed solar power plants, right now, as daylight hours begin to increase, that are the PRIORITY target for alternative energy. Just like, of course, the "storage batteries" are distributed. By the way, have you ever seen one? Even on a computer screen?

[ABC-schutze]

Just in case... Logistics, or so-called "transport," is FIRST and foremost, databases of routes, delivery points, loading and unloading, the number of vehicles and their types, road conditions, etc.

Therefore, "transport," without "electricity" to ensure, at a minimum, the management of such databases, is simply "pieces of iron" that "by themselves" won't "go anywhere." And won't "carry" anything...

And it's precisely these distributed solar power plants, right now, as daylight hours begin to increase, that are the PRIORITY target for alternative energy. Just like, of course, the "storage batteries" are distributed. By the way, have you ever seen one? Even on a computer screen?

[bk316]

In terms of capacity, this solar power plant is at the bottom of the list, especially in terms of design capacity, but everything depends on the weather.

Why are you lying so ineptly? Is this your first day working at the Central Intelligence Agency?

This is the most powerful solar power plant in 404 and the second most powerful in Europe.
https://novemisto.info/news/vozle-pokrova-otkryli-moschneyshuyu-v-ukraine-solnechnuyu-elektrostanciyu-
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For reference, the design capacity is 240 MW, quite comparable to, for example, the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station.

[Foggy Dew]

Total nonsense. A huge area target—it can only be hit with MLRS. Wasting a copter on a panel that costs less is pure PR, and a pointless one at that.

[Normann]

Even if you throw a hundred of them in there, it won't stop working, but you can only make everyone laugh with it.

[Boycott]

The big question is where they hit. If they hit the panel boards, it's a waste of money. But I think there are few such people with such alternative talents, and they destroyed the electronic units that control this field and transform the output from the panels into a marketable form. Then it would be critical and truly painful.

[ALCA056000]

Local differently gifted people judge by themselves "Exactly, exactly, they hit the very center with one geranium..."

[sinys]

Well, unless we cover it with cluster bombs.

[ABC-schutze]

What if you think about it first? Before throwing out a formulaic and superficial comment?

[faridg7]

You'd have to be incredibly gifted to hit the panels. There are transformers, battery banks, and control units there. If the strike were carried out during the day, the most effective strike would be on the battery bank, since if it were disconnected when the panels were at their peak voltage, both the load control unit and the transformers would fail.

[Foggy Dew]

It depends on what kind of SES is installed, don’t forget that you are dealing with UkrainiansAnd they're all about stealing from a government project—it's sacred. They're most likely using a larger version of the rooftop panels—at most, a converter, and a transformer is highly questionable. So, most likely, there are no batteries, much less control units for positioning the panels! The latter is definitely missing.

[faridg7]

Quote: Foggy Dew

It depends on what kind of SES is installed, don’t forget that you are dealing with UkrainiansAnd they're all about stealing from a government project—it's sacred. They're most likely using a larger version of the rooftop panels—at most, a converter, and a transformer is highly questionable. So, most likely, there are no batteries, much less control units for positioning the panels! The latter is definitely missing.

There was a completely normal station there...there are converters and transformers (Siemens), or rather there were.

[bk316]

There is most likely a larger version of the panels on the roofs - at most there is a converter and a transformer is very questionable.

A solar power plant cannot be built without a storage unit and a transformer substation. Even a campus solar power plant has these units, and this one is 240 MW.

[ABC-schutze]

Well, yes...

Especially if you consider the fact that the jungles of Vietnam, during the war with the States, were also a "huge area target", but to my surprise, the Yankees didn't really shell them with MLRS...

But they actively used defoliants as a weapon of war. And, frankly, they did a pretty effective (i.e., a LARGE...) job of it.

So, it's entirely possible to effectively destroy the so-called "fields" of so-called "solar batteries" (even without destroying their high-powered warheads, such as MLRS warheads and kamikaze UAVs, etc.) using standard police special equipment (not even combat agents...). Such equipment, for example, includes indelible paint, used by police "remotely" for the simple "marking" (and subsequent identification...) of large groups of rioters...

I therefore believe (purely for the "PR" you mentioned, of course...), that one of the MANY options is to simply modify a special police device and use it from an appropriate (possibly recoverable...) carrier. For irreversible "pollution" (i.e., contamination of the photoreceiving surfaces of solar panels connected to large "area targets"). As you can probably guess, putting an entire solar power plant out of action (and permanently...) wouldn't even require physically destroying the structure of a large mass of "polluted" elements. And then there's the hassle of replacing them (if there's anything and whoever it takes, which I'm convinced won't be the case now, due to the acute shortage of these elements, the sharply complicated logistics of their delivery, and the sharp rise in cost). Because the main producers are the "Chinese" (the Middle Kingdom and Taiwan). And the main consumers are the so-called "Europe"... And there's already a long line of people "wanting" to replenish their supplies. And the Kyiv Bandera Nazis are far from the first in line...

But the damaged so-called "control" electronics and even the solar power station's "storage batteries" will be replenished in a jiffy. They're made in "Europe." Easy... In Sweden, Finland, the Fatherland, the Czech Republic, Austria, and even the border states... And they're all nearby... Logistics and delivery for replacements won't be a problem...

So, "nonsense is nonsense," but we are choosing the right PRIORITIES for damaging solar power station infrastructure elements in a timely manner, right? And emotions can "wait"...

[bk316]

Wasting a copter on a panel that costs less is pure PR, and a pointless one at that.

This is PR you are organizing for yourself and it is really very pointless.
First of all, you have to be really stupid to hit the panels, and not the transformers, not the storage devices, and not the control unit.
Secondly, when a 240 MW station is operating, the controllers will crumble if hit by a 50 kg high-explosive fragmentation warhead.
Well, secondly, thirdly, when the geranium hits, the fragments will scatter for about 50 meters, that is, it will cover approximately
10000 square meters is approximately 5000 industrial panels, which at the most modest prices is 25 million.
The cost of geranium is 2 million.

[Mapping]

Quote: ABC-schütze

I loudly (very loudly...) APPLAUSE this FIRST blow to the "alternative" of the Kyiv Bandera-Nazis...

Moreover, about two weeks earlier, I had already drawn the portal's attention to the OBJECTIVE NECESSITY of launching such attacks on the Kyiv Bandera-Nazis' "alternative" energy supply structure. And I had presented the corresponding arguments. Because in the ongoing confrontation with Russia, the so-called "West" and Kyiv Bandera-Nazis will shift their focus from the virtually IRREVERSIBLY destroyed infrastructure of their "base" to the "alternative"—solar panels (battery fields), compact electricity "batteries-storage units" (located "dispersedly"), and, less noticeably, wind turbines...

The Russian Armed Forces, "KEEP IT UP," started at the RIGHT time! Prevent the Bandera-Nazis from developing any significant potential for "alternative" energy before the fall/winter season begins!

So that in the fall and winter, EVERYONE would be sitting not only without "heat," but also without "light." And sitting there TIGHTLY...

And this is the fifth year of the war. It's scary to imagine what targets will be hit in the tenth year of the war.

[ABC-schutze]

Well, for those who have an objective need and free time to generate such "ideas", then - "Flag in hand!"...

[Booker]

Quote: bk316

Why are you lying so clumsily?

You can't hide your boorish nature, I sympathize with you, Field Marshal.)))
I was, of course, referring to the list of power plants in Ukraine, thermal and otherwise. Why compare it to other solar power plants in other countries, smart guy?